Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez is from Puerto Rico and currently serves as the R. John Cooper '64 Presidential Teaching Professor of Spanish at Amherst College. His publications include a book on Cuba's foremost film director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: The Dialectics of a Filmmaker (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), a comprehensive history of Latin American narrative cinema Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016), and essays on community-based filmmaking in Abiayala. In his courses he uses a variety of pedagogical methodologies, including circle practice, embodied learning, and community-engaged research.